Makes No Sense

Kevin of Preemptive Karma is upset at Oregon Governor Kulongoski for proposing a cigarette tax because many low income folks are smokers. But what's wrong with a sin tax? If people don't want to pay it, there's a simple freaking solution that will help them personally and lower the state's health care costs: quit smoking. Kulongoski isn't taxing an essential like food or medicine.

(For those of you who don't know my mother was a long time smoker who had a heart attack at 45 and quit smoking from right then to present)

Ben Carson's foreign policy plan is a stupid as his economic plan. It doesn't bear any relation to reality, and Carson is promoting it knowing full well his audience doesn't have the intellectual ability to see how utterly ridiculous it is.

If you believe that the world was created in six days and that the son of the creator of that world was born to a virgin, died and came back to life three days later, and ascended into heaven where he now listens to your thoughts and uses them to decide where you should go after you die, thinking that morning after pills cause abortions when they don't is honestly the least of your lapses in logic.

Megan McArdle wrote an article on procrastination. It started well, but like all her other pieces, it descended into meaningless drivel, because no one ever taught Megan how to write articles that make sense.